Comments on: Happy Pi Approximation Day!

By: Mama Penguino

Mama Penguino — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:24:16 +0000

@RS: Hi, Chosa!

By: club der schlauen tiere - Nützlicher Input

club der schlauen tiere - Nützlicher Input — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:00:27 +0000

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By: Rene Sance

Rene Sance — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:54:09 +0000

Thank you all for your kind comments and wishes! @Chosa: Didn't make it past the 4th sentence, I see. That's OK, we're glad to have you here anyway! Everyone, say hello to Chosa. She's here all the way from Australia, and you can find her blog here.

By: chosha

chosha — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:27:32 +0000

I thought pi day was the 14th of March. o_O?

By: Mama Penguino

Mama Penguino — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:27:18 +0000

@Captain: I think either Rene or Nina can back me up here. Math nerds love nothing more than to prove one another wrong. I have witnessed Mr. Penguino work on another math guy’s theory or theorum or whateverthehell for weeks. If the math nerd is at all involved in academia, then they’ll write to the AMA or Math Monthly or whateverthehell and get their smack-down of the other guy’s work published. It’s self-perpetuating. I’ve heard Mr. P say that 90% of the articles in the Math journals are B.S., anyway, so I feel confident that if even one numeral in the trillion is off, someone will catch it.

By: CaptainFantastic

CaptainFantastic — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:04:39 +0000

When a group of math nerds calculates pi to a trillion digits, how do the other math nerds know the digits are correct?

The pi symbol on the cheesecake is off-center. This bothers me. Also, it is not a pie.

By: BigLeggedWoman

BigLeggedWoman — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:36:30 +0000

SPP – right?

Now back to my assignment — it’s due tomorrow! Like one of Lawyergay’s nightmares. Samuraipandapoetry is going to have his paws full this week.

By: samuraipandapoetry

samuraipandapoetry — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:17:31 +0000

What the fuck are you guys talking about?

By: ChillbearLatrigue

ChillbearLatrigue — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:03:07 +0000

“The Guinness Book of World Records recognizes Lu Chao for reciting 67,890 digits of π from memory.” Do you think that maybe the rest of us are just being lazy using 3.14? Also, how do we know that Lu Chao is really remembering pi and not just doing mathematical calculations in his head. Scammer.

By: Senor Wences

Senor Wences — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:37:12 +0000

[Smitros...use the embed code...that'll throw the whole thingie right in here.]